Opening Eyes

1. Opening Eyes: On my Short-Sightedness, Prem Chaya; The Blind Man at the Fair, Joseph Campbell; The Blind Boy, Colley Cibber; First Sight, Philip Larkin; Hares at Play, John Clare; Kob Antelope, Anon (translation by Ulli Beier); Mountain Lion, D. H. Lawrence; Red Kites Rising, Philip Goss; The Fly, William Blake; Acts of God, Catherine Phil MacCarthy; Mawu of the Waters, Abena P.A. Busia; The Ferryboat and the Traveller, Han Yong-Un; The Fridge, Boris Slutsky (translated by Elaine Feinstein); The Inside of Things, Brian Patten; The Seed Shop, Muriel Stuart; Gunpowder Plot, Vernon Scannell; They, Siegfried Sassoon; Activities; 2. You and me: One, James Berry; Friendship, Cole Porter; Friendship, Elizabeth Jennings; Heroes, Benjamin Zephaniah; These I Have Loved, Rupert Brooke; Unburgulars, Philip Gross; Boy at the Window, Richard Wilbur; Footings, Colette Bryce; Purge, Sheila Glen Bishop; Sewing Fingertips, Jean Sprackland; Shocks, Jean Sprackland; Tell your Mother I Saved Your Life, Jean Sprackland; Smothering Sunday, John Hegley; Bringing up a Single Parent, Brian Patten; In the Playground, Michael Rosen; Conkers, Grace Nichols; The Shout, Simon Armitage; The Apple-raid, Vernon Scannell; Geography Lesson, Brian Patten; Mid-Term Break, Seamus Heaney; Night Mail, W. H. Auden; Activities; 3. Out of doors: The Door, Miroslav Holub; Our Pond, Daniel Pettiward; My Neighbour's Rabbit, Brian Patten; My Mother Saw a Dancing Bear, Charles Causley; Hedgehog, Anthony Thwaite; Python, traditional; The Tomcat, Don Marquis; The Fox, Phoebe Hesketh; An Old Woman of the Roads, Padraic Colum; Meg Merrilies, John Keats; The Song of Wandering Aengus, W.B. Yeats; Caravan, Jean Sprackland; The Bicycle, Derek Mahon; The Wind Park, Gillian Clarke; The Fog, F. R. McCreary; Mist, Douglas Gibson; Trees in the Storm, Brian Patten; Feeding out-wintering cattle at twilight, Ted Hughes; Activities; 4. Ebb and flow: The Sea, James Reeves; Sea Fever, John Masefield; Thoughts like an Ocean, Gareth Owen; Evidence, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain; Tree Stump, Moya Cannon; The Cherry Trees, Laurence Binyon; Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now, A.E. Housman; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost; The Way through the Woods, Rudyard Kipling; In Time of "The Breaking of Nations", Thomas Hardy; Uffington, John Betjeman; Dumbshow, John Montague; Lucy Gray; or, Solitude, William Wordsworth; In the Attic, Andrew Motion; Drummer Hodge, Thomas Hardy; High Flight, John Gillespie Magee; 2000 A.D., Rabindranath Tagore; Activities; 5. Digging deeper: There are Days, John Montague; Five O'Clock Shadow, John Betjeman; Guardians, John Montague; A Dream, Dermot Healy; House on a Cliff, Louis MacNeice; In a Non-sleeper, Boris Slutsky (translated by Elaine Feinstein; Missing the Troop Train, Yevgeny Vinokurov; O What is That Sound, W. H. Auden; Stanley meets Mutesa, David Rubadiri; Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley; Call to a Simple Feast, Sue Minish; Charms, Catherine Phil MacCarthy; The Hollow Wood, Edward Thomas; Watching for Dolphins, David Constantine; The Donkey, G. K. Chesterton; The Tyger, William Blake; Activities; Notes on authors; Acknowledgements.